Colin Kaepernick, the rebel.

     The article by Kate Harris and Tracey Barret is a text to text comparison between Frederick Douglass's 1852 speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" and the more recent Colin Kaepernick's protest of the National Anthem.There is also an excerpt from "The Uses of Patriotism" by David Brooks of The New York Times that shows why Colin Kaepernick's protest is wrong.The article begins by asking complex questions like "What is the purpose of patriotism? Can protest be patriotic? And, how does a history of injustice and inequality in this nation affect our shared understanding of our national symbols?" When you put the two excerpts together, you can see both sides of the story. Either you are for or against Kaepernick's protest, or maybe you just haven't put the time into thinking about it enough to agree or disagree. Personally, my opinion is that he's not causing any actual harm by not standing during the National Anthem. If that is what he wants to do, let him do it. And thats pretty much what the NFL has done with it. If you don't like what you see, turn off the television.